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Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  The GriftHorse Android trojan has hit over 10 million victims globally, according to the research arm of mobile security firm Zimperium. Zimperium’s zLabs recently discovered GriftHorse, an aggressive mobile premium services campaign, and says the total amount

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Epic Games and SuperAwesome will make it easy for all game developers to implement free parent verification in their video games. That may sound like a simple thing to do, but it’s increasingly complicated in a world

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  BlueStacks made its name getting Android games to run on the PC. And now it is releasing BlueStacks X, which is a free cloud-based gaming streaming service for mobile games. The Palo Alto, California-based company describes BlueStacks

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! The core of the game industry is doing just fine. By various measures, it grew users and revenues by 23% last year when the pandemic made almost everything else fall apart. The center held. But our next game conference is

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Game Jolt has raised $2.6 million to expand its social platform where millions of Gen Z gamers and creators share and discover content around their favorite video games. The funding round marks a big milestone for a

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Electronic Arts promoted studios chief Laura Miele to chief operating officer. She replaces Blake Jorgensen, who will step down from his roles of chief financial officer and COO and leave the company by next summer. EA CEO

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Geoff Keighley‘s The Game Awards will take place as a live, in-person ceremony in Los Angeles on December 9. The celebration of video game culture will take place at the Microsoft Theater, the usual venue that holds

Join gaming leaders online at GamesBeat Summit Next this upcoming November 9-10. Learn more about what comes next.  Trailmix is launching its casual mobile game Love & Pies as a snack for gamers who want to sink their teeth into a good story. After testing its “merge” mechanics where you combine different resources into baked

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Kahoot recently announced that it has opened a partnership with Disney to bring Star Wars characters to their educational material in a series of free quizzes and games. These quizzes will, according to Kahoot, use the popular material to teach about

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  During a livestreamed event today, Google detailed the ways it’s using AI techniques — specifically a machine learning algorithm called multitask unified model (MUM) — to enhance web search experiences across different languages and devices. Beginning early next year, Google Lens,

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Gaming remains the largest category for spending on user acquisition on mobile devices, according to mobile marketing analytics platform Adjust. Gaming accounts for 50% of all user-acquisition ad spending, Adjust found. To put gaming’s 50% share of user-acquisition ad spending

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Netflix has acquired its first game studio with the acquisition of Oxenfree creator Night School Studio. The purchase price wasn’t disclosed. The Glendale, California-based game studio has 21 people and a history of pushing the boundaries for storytelling in games. It published

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Qualcomm said its smart cities and internet of things (IoT) ecosystem now has more than 400 tech companies participating as it crosses the third year of its Qualcomm Smart Cities Accelerator Program. The group includes system integrators, hardware and software providers,

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! While more than 61% of U.S. enterprises invested in mobile technology or mobile security in the last year, 73% experienced integration issues. Specifically, they admit their technology needs to have improved data analytics, troubleshooting, and issue resolution, among other challenges.

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Activision Blizzard doesn’t want to fight the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in court, so it is settling a claim that it violated its employee’s civil rights. As part of an injunction, Activision Blizzard has agreed to pay $18 million in

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  The future looks bright in mobile games, but it’s a fuzzy bright. And it’s not just consumer behavior during the pandemic that is creating that uncertainty. Mobile game makers came into 2021 in the midst of the pandemic with a lot

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! It was one weird week in video games. Nintendo finally did its September Direct video event where it announced — well, all we can really remember is that Chris Pratt is playing Mario. GamesBeat editor Mike Minotti, however, is still

A new GamesBeat event is around the corner! Learn more about what comes next.  Roblox unveiled Listening Parties for music artists, and its first one will be hosted by Grammy-nominated artist Poppy. With Roblox Listening Parties, artists premiere a new album in select top experiences on Roblox. This builds on Launch Parties, which offer customizable